Arts, Briefly; Sunday Ratings

By KATE AURTHUR; Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder

Published: June 28, 2005

So far, this summer's Sunday television schedule has a generation gap. For the third week in a row, CBS's Sunday was No. 1 in total viewers but failed to win the 18-to-49 category. Its lineup, repeats of ''60 Minutes,'' ''Cold Case'' and the movie ''Changing Lanes,'' drew an average of 7.78 million viewers in Nielsen's estimates. Among 18-to-49-year-olds, however, CBS was No. 4. Fox, which was in fourth place among total viewers, won that age group. Its best performer was a new episode of ''Family Guy'' at 9 p.m., which drew an audience of 7.29 million. But a repeat of ''American Dad,'' which followed, lost nearly a million of those viewers. It was the only half-hour of the night when Fox failed to place first among adults 18 to 49. ''American Dad'' was outpaced in that demographic by the last 30 minutes of a particularly tear-jerking, two-part episode of ABC's ''Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'' (7.38 million), in which the team remade both an 8-year-old cancer patient's hospital ward and her family's home. KATE AURTHUR